Digital BW, The Print

Greg,

I agree. I just finished linearing the 3, 4, and 6 ink set-ups, and 
there is certainly no visible difference between them in smoothness 
in a 10 inch print of a 360 ppi ramp. One has to remember that 
William Turner and German Etching at slightly textured, so they may 
be better at hiding the dots.

Shilesh

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Greg" 
<dfaprinting@...> wrote:
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Shilesh Jani"
> <shileshjani@> wrote:
> >
> > Oh,
> > 
> > I forget to add: As you go down in density of say K and the dots 
> > become visble at 60% patch desity, the next dense ink has to be 
able 
> > to support this density at reasonable ink limit, preferably less 
than 
> > 80% ink limit.
> > 
> 
> 
> Even if the next lightest ink does not cover where you get visible
> dots, you can still get a dotless print. Lets say we are talking 
about
> full black and medium black. Full black becomes dotty at 60% maximum
> density, medium black maxes out at 40% density (full coverage 
though)
> keep your medium black at nearly full density and add in some full
> black. This will increase the density, and you will still have full
> coverage. As the percentage of full black rises, you decrease the
> percentage of medium black until you get a complete hand off to full
> black.
> 
> In theory this is perfect. In practice this has some trade-offs 
which
> I explained in my previous post.
>